I just ran into Nicholas Reville of the Participatory Culture Foundation article on the future of internet video and how we can aim to push it toward more openness.
It is well written and questions the single service provider model that internet video is currently operating under.
Will internet video be centralized in huge services like YouTube or Google Video, or will it be more broadly distributed? (with technologies like RSS)
Some more questions to consider in the interest of “open” video on the internet:
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posted by aphid at 6:10 pm
I just ran into Nicholas Reville of the Participatory Culture Foundation article on the future of internet video and how we can aim to push it toward more openness.
It is well written and questions the single service provider model that internet video is currently operating under.
Will internet video be centralized in huge services like YouTube or Google Video, or will it be more broadly distributed? (with technologies like RSS)
Some more questions to consider in the interest of “open” video on the internet:
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posted by dale at 6:10 pm
In preparation for the open source media course that is happening tonight I built a vmware virtual appliance for running the powerful non-linear editor cinelerra in windows.
Now people stuck in windows land can take advantage of this most excellent video editing suite. Cinelerra features among many other things: Ogg Vorbis support! In other words you can edit the ogg theora files that we distribute here on metavid. To use this virtual appliance you will need the free vmware virtual machine player.
fedora-cinelerra-vm.rar (1.3GB), (save target as…we should have a torrent shortly). The root password is ‘thoughtpolice’, and user ‘cinelerra’ pass is ‘cinelerra’.
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posted by dale at 4:48 pm
